This is what is happening in the world of television for Sunday, December 27th. All hours are Eastern.
Top choice
Death until 2020 (Netflix, 3:01 p.m., premiere): It’s been quite a year, wouldn’t you say?
Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones (de Black mirror) They go back to their special comedy roots with this bird turn the year it was. Look for the review of this special by Zack Handlen, which includes Samuel L. Jackson, Hugh Grant, Kumail Nanjiani, Tracey Ullman, Samson Kayo, Lisa Kudrow, Diane Morgan, Leslie Jones, Cristin Milioti, Joe Keery and Laurence Fishburne.
Bedside tables
We’ve gotten to the point in this long, long year where most broadcast options are a) festive or b) repeat. So for the rest of 2020, we’ll highlight some of these festive things, but also some great shows or episodes of the year that you might have missed.
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The masked dancer (Fox, 8 pm, premiere of the series): This derivation feels like a proper addition for 2020. The dancers are masked and the celebrities will never be there again.
Ploma15 (Hulu): “It’s easy to make fun of the awkward pubescent experience, an era that causes the kind of uncertainty and suffering that the middle school pariahs Maya (Maya Erskine) and Anna (Anna Konkle) endure on the pound. Finding Ways to balance this suffering — an accessible and bottomless pit of comedy — with moments of growth, emotional depth, and occasional social triumph in ways that do not indicate total revision is significantly more difficult … For an old-fashioned comedy this already it was pretty bright, Ploma15 it continues to produce overly relative growth pains, with an amateur witchcraft side, in the sharpest and most recognizable ways possible. ” Read the rest of Shannon Miller’s thoughts on our list of the best TV shows of the year.